Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-15
BALLUNA.
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The Ballona harbor is success. In
five years it will be second CT de.
Nature is helping to remove the sand
and mud as fast as is consistent with
the situation. The opening is $50 feel
vide between the sheet piling, ample
to admit any vessel in any weather
except the severest storms. There is
feet of water ON the bar and at
spring tides 8; and it is deepening
itself constantly without dredging.
The dredger is taking the clay and
mud from the inside and forcing it
TIN vush l6-inch pipe to the space
between the sheet pillngs that line the
sides of the wharf or pier 50 as to an
Choir and strengthen the structure
against heav seas. This dredger is
something new in submarine EN-
cheering. 1t j. Ike pod auger Nth
hollow inside to take the chips away.
The auger works horizontally and
the boreings drop into the scoop end
of the suction pipe OF the centrifugal
pump that forces all together out to
the end OF the pier. There are two
pile drivers at work, one on the end
of the outer pier, drivin. solid ilings
at the V shaped section that is to form
the first of series, of this shape, tt
| fit on to each other, SO as to enable
the construction of pier in fifty foot
sections thus giving the most strength,
with a capacity OF resistance unknown
in the square form. There is Il track
three-fourths of mile along the beach
and a switch for the wharf that will
enable the cars to load from lighters,
as soon as the dredge has cleared out
up to the wharf. and the bridge is
built to carry the track across the east
arm of the lake. Two wells have been
bored under the bluff, that give an
a pie supply Of fair water. And a
grade is started up the face to take
road to the top easily. Houses are
going up on the shore, to accOmmo-
date temporily the business inevitably
connected with works of this nagni.
tude. The track is started along the
ridge of sand dun toward old Santa
Monica, to the ground owned there by
the Atchison people: AMI will he push
ed faster as soon as the forces worx-
ing in the south part of the county can
be drawn thither.
Creosote works have been constructed
to render the timber that is to be used
in the most exposed situations indie
structible. The anchors and chains
used at Anaheim to hold the lighters
there have been purchased by the
harbor company, and the new lighter
built in ten uays-is to be sent after
them this week. The company have,
in addition to their tug boat, Il Wis
consin built boat for pledsu = parties
and for sounding, that is about twenty
five feet long, seven foot beam, and
will larry ten persons comfortably,
steaming with five gallons Of crude oil
twelve hours at "a fair speed.
| Anderson Rose is sending seventy
rolls OF gilt-edged butter to town week
" that does not take its tint from SAT-
from or anato. Il brings 81 per roll.
The Machadas are gathering their
grapes AMI sending them to the viii
cries at ~ per ton. Their six-year-
olive Trees are full of fruit.
A colony of swallows have garnished
the old mill frame ON the TOWNSHIP laid
out by DR.. Preuse on the Rodeo Las
Aguas with cornice OF mud houses.
Happy little people with simple tastes,
living near to Natures heart.